Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
It’s a beautiful cool day and I’ve just spent a pleasant afternoon with my friends from Puerto Rico. In the last few years they have reversed their living situation so now they spend most of the year in New Jersey and just a few of the colder winter months in Puerto Rico. They still have family and friends living there and they’ve been told that the hurricane situation wasn’t too bad, at least for them. The power went out but it wasn’t nearly the disaster Harvey was. They’re still nervous because of the upcoming storms but on the whole they’re OK. I only see my friends annually and we had a great time just sitting and chatting and catching up with each other.
Once again I went back to the Met this week but for a much more pleasant exhibit. Another exhibit drawn from the treasures of the Met’s permanent collection. This time their American art, Gilded Age Drawings at The Met. The title is a bit of a misnomer as many of the objects are watercolors. The time period, the Gilded Age, started in 1870 and lasted through the 1890s and highlights many of my favorite American artists. I don’t know why but the Met hasn’t listed any of the artworks on the web page for the show although all of them are in the Met database. This is one instance I really wish they had as I liked everything in the show so picking favorites isn’t easy. I’ll link up a bunch of them. Click on enlarge for better viewing.
There were four John Singer Sargent watercolors which actually are out of the gilded age era having been created in the 20th Century.
Sirmione – A muted landscape
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/12185 Two Soldiers at Arras – Another of his war paintings.
http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=258493 Boats – Sargent painted many scenes of boats, this one in muddy browns and faded blues and whites.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/12045In the Generalife – Sargent’s sister Emily painting in a garden with two of her friends.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/12116 A bunch by Thomas Eakins
John Biglin in a Single Scull – This is a wonderful painting of a man out in a scull rowing, you can see the muscles in his arms as he strains to propel the boat. There’s a lot to see, the 8 man scull off in the distance as well as several sailboats. And the coastline in the background with some kind of structure right in the middle.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10818 Gross Clinic – An ink and watercolor study for his large scale masterpiece. Another painting with a lot going on, Dr. Gross standing while lecturing students as surgeons utilize his techniques to repair the thigh of the patient. His distraught mother sits to the left and Eakins has inserted himself as well taking notes and sketching.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10815 The Dancing Lesson – A sentimental depiction of three generations after Emancipation. I wouldn’t have noticed it if the wall card hadn’t pointed out that the very tiny picture up in the left hand corner is Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10821 The Pathetic Song – This is a smaller watercolor reproduction of a larger oil painting which he created as a gift for a friend who posed as the singer. Both women were students of his.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10822 Young Girl Meditating – A girl in what even then was an old time dress standing next to an old time tilt-top table.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10829 Winslow Homer
Inside The Bar – Depicting the women who stand by water’s edge waiting for their men to return from the sea on what appears to be a stormy day.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11125 Boys in a Dory – One of his many depictions of childhood pastimes.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/17053 Sloop, Nassau – The second link is to an essay discussing the painting.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11139 http://artlivesatlci.blogspot.com/2007/09/immitationalism-and-literal-qualities.html James McNeill Whistler – Lady in Gray – A miniature portrait, a scaled down version of his full size oil portraits, this one is thought to be one of his usual models and one critic who wrote about the painting commented on the model’s “intrepid arrogance.”
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/13245 Thomas Wilmer Dewing - Portrait of a Woman – This is a silverpoint drawing of a woman’s head. A very ethereal, delicate image whose luminescence doesn’t really come across on the web. It hypnotized me while I stood in front of it.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10748 Laura Coombs Hills -- Hollyhocks in the Sunshine – A new acquisition for the Met. Pastel painted en plein air (outdoors), very beautiful and realistic.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/755524 Louis Comfort Tiffany – Louise Tiffany, reading – Another pastel showing his wife reclining on a couch. He painted her wearing a vivid blue frock on a lush green sofa with her face turned away from us. She’s sitting next to a table with a still life of books, vase and plants.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/17724 Mary Cassatt – Mother Feeding Child – And another pastel showing the special bond between mother and child, a theme that she explored to great effect in her later years.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10403 William Trost Richards – Two lovely mini landscape paintings.
Franconia Notch, New Hampshire – From the website:
Early Museum records identify this picture as “The Franconia Mountains from Campton, New Hampshire,” but Campton is miles from the site portrayed, the entrance to Franconia Notch. In the center is Mount Lafayette, flanked by Cannon Mountain and Eagle Cliff on the left and Mount Lincoln and Little Haystack on the right. The image reflects a tour of the White Mountains shared by Richards, the Reverend Elias L. Magoon (who donated this and 84 other watercolors to the Museum in 1880) and their wives in June 1872, and probably portrays the white-maned clergyman himself, absorbed in a book as he strolls the path in the foreground
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11891 Lake Squam from Red Hill – A very picturesque view captured in watercolor.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11897There were others but I think this will give you an idea of the quality and breadth of this exhibit not to mention the Met’s permanent collection. This is one of my favorite exhibits of this summer, it’s open until December so hopefully I’ll get back to it again.
And this looks like a good place to visit the Flickrs.
Andy G.
School Gender Switch 03 - Tutus for Boys - Jeans for Girls. (see other photos)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/133827690%40N07/33425652024/ Skater Perfection
https://www.flickr.com/photos/amberjolake/35912416216/ Candy 2016
https://www.flickr.com/photos/101366775%40N04/31432822680/Susie695
https://www.flickr.com/photos/24899087%40N05/33843985753/February 14, 2009 -- Transpitt Meeting -- Wedding Theme
https://www.flickr.com/photos/robynmichaels/3282893170/P1030623
https://www.flickr.com/photos/96984932%40N06/34231962946/Pansy 10
https://www.flickr.com/photos/queerina_slutskaya/35423609702/Me as sissy girl
https://www.flickr.com/photos/29794930%40N06/35681184030/ SSD 491
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tkr022/35926178116/DSC06868
https://www.flickr.com/photos/134329784%40N03/32007132334/
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